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Can open Chas Schwab web site -- IE opens it fine.

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All I get is a blank page without any messages.

All I get is a blank page without any messages.

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Hello,

Many site issues can be caused by corrupt cookies or cache. In order to try to fix these problems, the first step is to clear both cookies and the cache. Note: This will temporarily log you out of all sites you're logged in to. To clear cache and cookies do the following:

  1. Go to Firefox > History > Clear recent history or (if no Firefox button is shown) go to Tools > Clear recent history.
  2. Under "Time range to clear", select "Everything".
  3. Now, click the arrow next to Details to toggle the Details list active.
  4. From the details list, check Cache and Cookies and uncheck everything else.
  5. Now click the Clear now button.

Further information can be found in the Clear your cache, history and other personal information in Firefox article.

Did this fix your problems? Please report back to us!

Thank you.

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).

  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window.
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I did this before I asked for support. Doesn't help.

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Cor-el. I did everything suggested here and in the links you provided -- Schwab still doesn't load. Looks like I'm going to have to switch to IE :(

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Is there any content loaded form the server if you check that in the Network tab in the Web Console (Firefox/Tools > Web Developer)?


Reload web page(s) and bypass the cache to refresh possibly outdated or corrupted files.

  • Hold down the Shift key and left-click the Reload button
  • Press "Ctrl + F5" or press "Ctrl + Shift + R" (Windows,Linux)
  • Press "Command + Shift + R" (Mac)

See also:

You can remove all data stored in Firefox from a specific domain via "Forget About This Site" in the right-click context menu of an history entry ("History > Show All History" or "View > Sidebar > History") or via the about:permissions page.

Using "Forget About This Site" will remove all data stored in Firefox from that domain like bookmarks, cookies, passwords, cache, history, and exceptions, so be cautious and if you have a password or other data from that domain that you do not want to lose then make sure to backup this data or make a note.

You can't recover from this 'forget' unless you have a backup of the involved files.

It doesn't have any lasting effect, so if you revisit such a 'forgotten' website then data from that website will be saved once again.

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Network tab in the Web Console says, "The character encoding of the plain text document was not declared. The document will render with garbled text in some browser configurations if the document contains characters from outside the US-ASCII range. The character encoding of the file needs to be declared in the transfer protocol or file needs to use a byte order mark as an encoding signature."

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Is "browser.menu.showCharacterEncoding set true " in the about:config page?

The developer may need to add this to the page: for php header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

or for html <meta content="text/html;charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">

Or if you are not the developer a temp work around is this add on Right Encoding

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Note the you can find the Character Encoding menu item in the Web Developer menu when browser.menu.showCharacterEncoding = false.
Setting this pref to true will also show this item in the Firefox menu button drop-down list for easier access.


<?php header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); ?>